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Bobby Osborne reportedly dead: https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/8469487/bobby-osborne-dead-bluegrass-tennessee-rocky-top/ Yet another for the List of the Missed @Death Impends, last picked in 2018. http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2018/celebs_O.html#osbob0

I presume she drowned in a vat of her own bile. Anyhow, @Death Impends Ann Leslie another for the List of the Missed, picked last year: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2022/celebs_L.html#leslia And a reminder to @Gooseberry Crumble, that's another of your dropped picks picking up a scything this year. Have you thought maybe keeping your survivors or at least some of them? That's a fair few misses now.

Any of our journo friends heard anything about Ann Leslie? Dirty rumour going around...

TRIC awards, "looking dapper" apparently: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12239147/Radio-presenter-James-Whale-looks-dapper-cosies-wife-Nadine-Lamont-Brown.html

Mark Labbett up for an interview on Steph's Packed Lunch, in a couple of minutes. Form spotters to the remote control...

Jenni Murray welcomes Sarah Ferguson to the Lopsided Club (her words, not mine) and details her own journey: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12236027/JENNI-MURRAY-Just-stay-strong-Sarah-youre-newest-member-Lopsided-Club.html

Could we be seeing an OoO Theme Team next year? There's still an awful lot of Peter Bowles' collaborators kicking around too. There's a team in that also.

Malcolm Mowbray who co-wrote and directed A Private Function with Palin in a starring role, reportedly dead: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/malcolm-mowbray-director-private-function-192918896.html IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0610261/ Also directed Once Upon A Time In The North, Cadfael and Pie In The Sky. Which Palin collaborator is next? Maggie Smith? Alan Bennett? One of the Pythons? It's all gone very Peter Bowles for him this year.

Just finished watching Popmaster TV. I speak as someone who has never heard the radio version. Suffers from the same problem as the BBC's The Hit List. The buzz in rounds generally barely allow for a few notes and the contestants have answered before you can open your mouth. It was ok, I'll watch the rest this week, but gawd it needs a bit more variety in the categories.

Reports that Johanna Ruf, the last survivor of Hitler's Bunker in 1945, has died:

A good enough QO for John B Goodenough: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/john-goodenough-obituary-mbvbhjgxq Or even: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-12235303/John-Goodenough-Nobel-laureate-battery-pioneer-dies-100.html

Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, 4th PM of Barbados, reportedly dead aged 86: https://www.nationnews.com/2023/06/26/former-prime-minister-sir-lloyd-passes/

Current incumbent doing rather well I'd say.

Former Tory MP for Blackpool North Harold Elletson reportedly dead aged 62: https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/people/tributes-paid-to-former-blackpool-north-mp-harold-elletson-who-has-died-in-berlin-aged-62-4196997 Subsequently became a LibDem, then founded the Northern Party. Ended up endorsing the local Labour candidate in the area. A man for all seasons.

Didn't need to post one, @gcreptile already updated the scoreboard etc.

Herald Obit (not DDP fodder this year though): https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23614183.former-scotland-manager-craig-brown-dies-aged-82/

Craig Brown for the List of the Missed @Death Impends, last picked 2011? https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2011/celebs_B.html#browcr https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23614183.former-scotland-manager-craig-brown-dies-aged-82/ Don't forget to add Angela Thorne anaw.

Craig Brown being reported dead:

Been watching for nearly an hour and there's no sign of her and no mention of her. I think we had better start getting into the brace position.

I'm not playing so I didn't know. My condolences.

Former Tory list MSP for Lothian in the Scottish Parliament, Cameron Buchanan reportedly dead aged 76: https://www.midlothianview.com/news/honorary-president-of-the-midlothian-conservative-and-unionist-association-has-died

This Jim Molan @Book? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11641863/Jim-Molan-dead-72.html

Simon Crean reportedly dead aged 74: https://www.watoday.com.au/politics/federal/former-federal-labor-leader-simon-crean-dies-aged-74-20230625-p5djcc.html

From the Fringes thread: Margaret McDonagh reportedly dead: Diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2021 and treatment quality raised by her sister in the Commons: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-brain-cancer-symptoms-siobhain-mcdonagh-b2297896.html Edit: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22783707/margaret-mcdonagh-dead-labour-emotional-tributes/